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Zhensheng Jia, assistant director at ZTE, introduces the technical advantages of 100G product especially on DSP and SD-FEC modules, a number of field deployments worldwide, and also the pioneered achievements on 400G and 1T research
Ethernet Service Quality Visualization goes beyond SLA reports. It is an opportunity for communication service providers to make their services more valuable and provide a better customer experience by extending the transparency of their services
Ron Johnson, director of high-end routing and optical at Cisco, discusses some of the emerging trends in the marketplace. Ron addresses things that are driving the demand for Ethernet along with the challenges and advances to meet this demand
Sunrise describes the need for a robust and flexible IP RAN network to meet the ever growing demands of the telecoms consumer, highlighting its partnership with Huawei as a key strategy in the current and future development of the network
Ralph Santitoro, director, Carrier Ethernet market development, Fujitsu, discusses the MEF Carrier Ethernet Study Guide and new announcements from Fujitsu, including the FLASHWAVE 9500 and NETSMART 1500 Software
Heavy Reading’s Sterling Perrin and Doug Junkins, CTO of NTT Communications, discuss the rapid rise of 100G transport and the drivers and requirements for a terabit transport future
After 20 years of providing business services, Cox Business is still seeing double-digit growth rates, driven by SMB sales and sustained by a strong local presence, says SVP Phil Meeks
Kevin O'Toole of Comcast Business Services explains how the operator is beginning to use Ethernet-over-coax to complement a Metro Ethernet platform it's using to target mid-sized business customers
Zeev Draer, VP of strategic marketing at MRV, discusses how convergence of layers and monetization of services drive networking for service providers and how real estate issues are creating the need for efficient optical and packet platforms
Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick says cable's haul of the business services market is set to eclipse $7B in 2012, but that still represents a small piece of the overall take
T-Marc 3312SC from Telco Systems brings Ethernet/MPLS mobile backhaul to
the cell site with best in class density size and price performance for
mobile operators and wholesale backhaul providers, learn more in this
interview at Ethernet Expo NYC
Toshal Dudhwala, product manager at Ixia, talks about the some of the initial OpenFlow/SDN applications in the networks, testing requirements and Ixia OpenFlow test solution
CoreSite COO Jarrett Appleby discusses CoreSite's focus in building data center campuses to support and scale cloud and private networking solutions as well as the company's work with the networking and cloud community to build a home for the cloud
Overture CEO Mike Aquino discusses virtualization, cloud and SDN – and how it can accelerate service providers' ability to create, sell and activate services
Yacov Cazes, business development director at RAD, discusses how carriers can increase profitability using RAD's Carrier Ethernet ecosystem to lower TCO
Alcatel-Lucent is providing flexible, scalable, simplified solutions for the next generation of heterogeneous networks. From 100GB interfaces to 60GHz radios, Alcatel-Lucent is driving mobile backhaul innovation
tw telecom has one of the most secure, scalable and resilient business Ethernet networks in the country. Adam Saenger, senior director of portfolio management, shares how customers can flex their bandwidth with Dynamic Capacity
Vitesse Semiconductor CTO Martin Nuss discusses the unique challenges for small cell deployments and the importance of nanosecond-accurate timing in 4G/LTE and LTE-Advanced networks
Adtran is working with customers to deliver new, innovative solutions for every ingress point in the network. These innovations are enabling service providers to accelerate change; quickly launching next-gen services. The only constant is change
Glenn Calafati, vice president of product development at Sidera Networks, talks about the drivers for network investment, the move towards 1 Tbit/s, and the need for greater clarity on carrier-grade SDN
Donald MacNeil, CMO at XO Communications, discusses Carrier Ethernet 2.0, the timing of the operator's 100Gbit/s service launch and the potential for software-defined networking (SDN)
Comcast's Karen Schmidt explains how the company is targeting mid-sized businesses with Metro Ethernet and aiming even higher when the opportunity arises
At Ethernet Expo, NTT America CTO Doug Junkins talks about his company's leap into software-defined networking (SDN) and explains why more standards are needed for SDN-based service management
Cisco's Kelly Ahuja talks about a small cell future that enables multiple connectivity options and explains how the tiny radios could operate in situations such as Hurricane Sandy
Light Reading's Joe Braue talks with Rebecca Prudhomme, VP of marketing, Amdocs, about capitalizing on new business models in 4G. M2M, OTT and new vertical services – i.e. smart home and home health monitoring – are poised to play a key role in LTE
Telstra's Mike Wright and Rami Rahim of Juniper Networks discuss the Australian carrier's decision to revamp its edge network using broadband network gateway (BNG) capabilities
Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin and Colt's Mirko Voltolini discuss opportunities and challenges for network operators in the cloud era as well as some of the key enabling technologies for adapting transport networks to cloud demands
BT Wholesale's Steve Best gives an update on the backhaul and HD voice services markets as mobile operators migrate to 4G, answers questions about dark fiber and wholesale IP voice and gives The Lord of the Rings a nod
8:00 AM As Infonetics Research says small cell volumes won't be big enough to support the current crop of vendors, I've chosen some potential M&A candidates
Sanjeev Mervana, senior director, SP Marketing, Cisco, talks about mobile trends; the effects of LTE on the networks; strategies for small cells as they become crucial for addressing macro cell coverage challenges and capacity
NetScout VP of Marketing Steve Shalita discusses the challenges mobile operators face in maintaining quality of service as the use of broadband-enabled devices and network traffic increase across IP networks
Alcatel-Lucent's Steve Dyck talks about the challenges and opportunities associated with small cell backhaul, and highlights strategies on how small cell backhaul costs can be minimized
AT&T is insisting on fiber for its cell towers, but for small cells, it's back to the drawing board and everything is under consideration including microwave, other radio technology and even bonded copper
Luc Ceuppens shares Juniper Networks Universal Access Solution Architecture highlighting automated provisioning for easy deployment to thousands of small cell sites, high precision timing and synchronization for real time media voice and video
AT&T's Yiannis Argyropoulos says the carrier wants to deploy small cells but is looking for integrated solutions that address power, installation, security and cost issues
The industry is learning a lot about the evolved packet core (EPC) from initial LTE rollouts but there are still many challenges related to the delivery of advanced services across an all-IP network
Ms Jia He, of Huawei Technologies shares her viewpoints on the MPLS-TP standards and updates the contributions and applications of MPLS-TP technologies by Huawei
The emergence of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 and cloud computing has highlighted the importance of wholesale Ethernet, class of service and Ethernet service management to carriers around the world. Overture CEO Jeff Reedy shares his thoughts on these trends
The vendors have delivered packet-optical systems, and it's up to XO to do something good with them, CTO Randy Nicklas says. Meanwhile, he's also eyeing the potential of OpenFlow. From the Packet-Optical Transport Evolution conference
Given the disruptive potential of software-defined networking, what's going to happen to routers as we know them? Stuart Elby of Verizon gives us his theory
Less than one-fourth of cell towers in the US have fiber connections today, says Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. Without fiber, 4G networks will be bandwidth starved
Light Reading's Packet Optical Transport Evolution conference will see lots of discussion about the optical control plane as vendors prepare for far-off plans in cloud computing and software-defined networking
9:30 AM We don't either, so we asked a selection of people on the CTIA show floor what they thought this obtuse acronym from Lemko Corp. might mean and how it should be pronounced. Deemoowinnee, anyone?
OpenFlow and software-defined networking were the talk of Interop. Light Reading sits down with Dan Pitt of the Open Networking Foundation to explore the reasons why
T-Metro 8000 provides industry’s first open architecture platform with best-in-class Carrier Ethernet/MPLS density, scalability and price performance for cloud, mobile backhaul and business services
What problem is software defined networking even trying to solve? David Ward, from Cisco's CTO office, tells the Open Networking Summit how service providers could approach that question
Amsterdam Internet Exchange CTO Henk Steenman says ISPs interconnecting in the Dutch capital are already signing up for 100 Gigabit Ethernet services but notes there are still limitations to the service outside the data center environment
RAD’s Ethernet Service Aggregation Platform works magic for Service Providers. New 3U device includes 1588 Grand Master and highest capacity-to-size ratio in the industry: supports 80 GbE, multiple 10 GbE and TDM pseudowire
Mike Tighe, the former Verizon executive who recently joined AboveNet as VP of marketing, says history suggests that a 100Gbit/s Ethernet connection will soon become the standard for business customers
CableLabs' Chris Donley explains how a new block of IPv4 addresses is being made available to service providers to help them ease the transition to IPv6
Paolo Gambini, the VP of product management and development at Inteliquent (formerly Neutral Tandem and Tinet), explains the different ways in which Ethernet OA&M has changed for the better
At Ethernet Europe in Munich, Colt's head of Ethernet & IP Services, Henry Bohannon, talks about the 'new battleground' in Ethernet services and explains his company's 'Service Wrap' philosophy
At Ethernet Europe in Munich, Belgacom's director of WAN, Internet & Security Services explains the operator's approach to 'smart networking' and how that's helping it take cloud services to its full range of enterprise customers
At Ethernet Europe, Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Patrick Donegan talks about the challenges associated with small-cell backhaul, the evolution of wholesale mobile backhaul and the Bayern Munich vs Real Madrid Champions League semi-final soccer match
Cisco Fellow Fred Baker and John Brzozowski, IPv6 chief architect at Comcast, discuss the impact of IPv6 in the network and assess the readiness of the cable industry for this transition
Docsis specification co-author and Cisco Fellow John Chapman shares his perspective on the 15-year history of Docsis and what’s in store for the future, including going beyond Docsis to CCAP
At OFC in Los Angeles, Huawei Technologies gave a live demonstration of their 400G prototype. Sterling Perrin of Heavy Reading, and Peter Stassar of Huawei Europe's R&D center, discuss the development of this technology and its future potential
Industry leaders from Cable & Wireless Worldwide, Heavy Reading and Infinera discuss how super-channels scale networks without scaling operations and the benefits of photonic integration
Broadcom introduced its latest solution for mobile backhaul, designed to address performance challenges of operators and service providers as they upgrade legacy mobile networks. Broadcom is changing the world by 'Connecting everything'
Huawei's Tony Hu discusses 100GE market trends and his company’s rollout of a 200GE line router card designed to address carrier demand for affordable, feature-rich 100GE technology
Operators face a number of challenges as they build out their IP networks. Heavy Reading senior analyst Stan Hubbard identifies some of those key issues, including convergence, interoperability and network visibility
Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2012, Heavy Reading senior analyst Gabriel Brown talks about small cells, Wi-Fi in mobile networks and voice over LTE (VoLTE)
Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Sterling Perrin and representatives from Reliance Globalcom, Level 3, and XO talk about the benefits and challenges of deploying 100G today
See how EANTC validated Crossbeam's firewall performance for mobile networks, and the importance of securing the interface to the Internet from Heavy Reading's Gabriel Brown
Watch as Light Reading, Cisco and Cox discuss the benefits of this exciting new in-home technology connecting managed and CE device content experiences
Fujitsu’s James Anthony illustrates how OTN is enabling new service opportunities by providing a simple high bandwidth pipe for large scale data services
Eitan Schwartz, RAD’s VP of Ethernet Access, discusses the advanced feature sets that have recently earned multiple awards for RAD Carrier Ethernet demarcation products
Execs with Cox and Charter explain why tucking software and processing complexity further into the cloud is accelerating cable’s ability to change and enhance video services and applications
MRV Senior VP Dave Stehlin discusses technology integration and OAM for Optical Transport and Carrier Ethernet equipment in both telco and cable markets
LRTV spoke with Steve Alexander, CTO of Ciena, about how the advent of new cloud-computing services and platforms is dependent on the availability of intelligent network bandwidth
Russ Esmacher, senior manager for IP NGN at Cisco, talks about life after SONET, upcoming deployments in MPLS-TP and why Cisco sees 100-gigabit technology being widely deployed in 2012 across the network
